YANGON: Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday called on Myanmar's people to give a united response to an "unjust" election law, her lawyer Nyan Win told AFP.

"The people and political forces have to respond united to such an unjust law," Suu Kyi said, according to Nyan Win, after he visited the democracy icon at her house. "She didn't think such a repressive law would come out."

Under new election legislation Nobel Peace laureate Suu Kyi faces exclusion from her own National League for Democracy (NLD) party and is not allowed to stand in elections this year on the grounds that she is a serving prisoner.